Saw nothing, pissed at Oiwa for not calling up Kashif anyway. Any reason for that? Plus wanted to see Tawaratsumida called up as well, yes,...
Only saw the last 15 minutes... Nagatomo... if you're going to call him, play him at least..Or is he just there as locker room leader?
Hm, are you sure you're not being a bit over-enthusiastic with the bolded part? Liverpool does have a certain history after all, and that includes...
Ok, on the senior leadership, hadn't really thought of that, but actually Endo should bring that too. He's certainly not young anymore and by now...
I see no problem with Taniguchi. He wasn't the problem at the Asian Cup either really. He's solid, nothing more nothing less. Asano was clear,...
Polite yes, rational... at times you're almost irrationally positive:) Which is ok too, no insult meant, but your positivity doesn't always come...
Moriyasu is hopeless. So now he calls up Nagatomo? Is he crazy? I'm most likely the biggest Nagatomo fan around here, for me the best Japanese...
Kamada had a bad WC, definitely. But he's had good games for the NT as well. Let's see how he does for the rest of the season here, then if he's...
Discussion is probably moot, unless Japan manages a loss against North Korea in March. Or two. Otherwise can't see them firing him. But while I...
I blame Matsuki of course. Uchida a joy to listen too.
I know, I know, plus he's done, complete implosion. But for that period of time he looked sublime. Injured for the Asian Cup 5 years ago, never...
Well, Nakajima-Minamino-Doan worked because of Nakajima really. As soon as he was out...Minamino-Doan were out of ideas. Minamino is good as...
Japan simply didn't react after the 1-1, when they had to do something, nothing anymore.Thought they would see it home before the equalizer. Got...
Ito? Not a high quality winger, he's still an utter mediocrity, who has speed but no clue against a standing defense. Actually he improved, now...
Not much to say, finally easy win, although didn't see the Kubo goal and gave the last 10' of regulation a pass. Seems I missed the Asano show....
Only watched from right when they scored the 2-0. Looked good then, at the end less again. Goal as rougou said. Suzuki needs to learn to use his...
First goal... look at it again, there's 8 Japanese in their own penalty area. But another 2 Iraqis completely free behind the scorer. Suzuki's job...
Fully deserved win by Iraq. They looked good 5 years ago, hadn't seen them since, but thought they played Qatar better than anybody else then,...
The one omission I don't get is Tanaka... While I'm not a big fan, he's ok, nothing more at this point, but he's been solid enough for Japan. Why...
Oh, come on, if you count the rightly disallowed Japanese goal, you might as well count the equally rightly disallowed German goal. Even if it's a...
Plan B of course is Asano... unless he's still plan A. Starting Ueda twice made sense since the rest was injured and Asano doesn't need to be...
Overall B Team, the worrying thing then is that Moriyasu seems to consider Asano part of the A team... argh. Didn't see it, will miss Tuesday's...
Missed the game, so not much to say, would have liked to see Hatate. Furuhashi? Not only great at Celtic, he's been great everywhere he went....
Doan and Kamada out, Minamino back in. Interesting, didn't expect those 2 omissions. Minamino for the NT has really only worked playing in the...
Missed the first half, so not much to comment really, second half wasn't all that somehow. Game seemed decided, suffered a bit a short while, then...